The Feast
Two weeks later, it was Christmas time. Peter was excited for his first Christmas with the Starks and the Avengers. Peter always used to prepare dinner with Ben. After, that became Peter messing around in the kitchen and only trusting May with the potatoes.
Now, that came with a lot more. With the Avengers, Steve and Bucky were in charge of cooking. They were unanimously voted the Official Avengers Cooks. However, they had no problem letting anyone help them, so for Christmas dinner, all the kids helped them. This did not include Ned and MJ because they were celebrating with their family, even though Peter had tried to invite them.
Harley’s and Alicia’s mom had come over for the occasion. The Keener siblings technically still lived in Tennessee, but spend most their time in New York because they were home-schooled by Tony and Pepper to prepare them for their jobs in SI. When Tony Stark called her and asked her to call about her children coming to live with him indefinitely, she hesitated. She agreed, mostly because she saw that both of them had little challenge at their old school. A little extra gift for her was that she could spend more time with her new boyfriend. That was months ago and she had since broken up with him. Now, with Christmas, it was the perfect time to visit her children.
Peter had never met Ellen before, but he’d heard Harley and Alicia talk about her, and was definitely excited about meeting her. When she arrived, Harley and Alicia bolted out of the kitchen to greet her. She almost fell over but it didn’t seem like she minded. After she recovered, she kissed both of them on their heads, happy to see them. She released herself and went to greet the rest. She had been in the Tower before and she met most of the Avengers, but she had just missed Peter when she visited.
“Hello, Peter, nice to meet you! I’ve heard a lot about you.”
“Hello Mrs Keener, nice to meet you too,” Peter said, unsure how to react to that statement.
“You can call me Ellen, you know. I haven’t been called Mrs Keener in a while,” Ellen said.
“Of course Mrs Ke– sorry, Ellen.” Peter blushed.
“I hear you have a girlfriend, Michelle?” Alicia elbowed her mom, who ignored her daughter.
“Yes, I do. She’s celebrating Christmas with her extended family, but she’s coming over for New Years with her parents,” Peter said. MJ had said yes to that invitation, but her parents wanted to tag along to meet their daughter’s mentors.
Ellen smiled. She loved seeing young love. Neither of her kids had been in a relationship, so to see two high schoolers like that was heart-warming.
Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
i have returned to the hell we call Twitter
- Kates | @ohhellyesplease
@yeeterparkour PETER-MAN
-- Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@ohhellyesplease KATIE
--- Kates | @ohhellyesplease
@yeeterparkour I LOVE YOU
---- Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@ohhellyesplease I LOVE YOU TOO
Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@lokigodofmischief AND @thorgodofthunder ARE ON EARTH I LOVE HTEM
- Low-key Immortal | @lokigodofmischief
@yeeterparkour Hello young Stark, nice to see you again
-- Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@lokigodofmischief don’t call me young, if you were human, you’d be seventeen too
--- GITC | @nedleeds
@yeeterparkour holdon. are you telling me that loKI, GOD OF MISCHIEF IS GEN-Z?!?!??!?
---- GITC | @nedleeds
@yeeterparkour actually yea that makes perfect sense lmao
Spidey Son | @mightbespidey
SO remember that back in October I made a halloween suit bc of @ohheavensnoplease
- Jamie | @ohheavensnoplease
@mightbespidey istg
-- Spidey Son | @mightbespidey
@ohheavensnoplease hush. I remade it and it’S STILL GREAT AND IT WORK SFOR XMAS TOO [picture of a Spider-Man suit covered in lights]
--- Kates | @ohhellyesplease
@mightbespidey how long can those burn?
---- Spidey Son | @mightbespidey
@ohhellyesplease not that long :( I do have enough energy in the suit, but this specific suit is not fire resistant so after a while (about an hour) it starts to smoke and stuff
----- Iron Dad | @tonystank
@mightbespidey you are Not wearing that thing
------ Spidey Son | @mightbespidey
@tonystank :( why not, dad?
------- Iron Dad | @tonystank
@mightbespidey I’d rather have a living, boring son than a dead, festive son
-------- Responsible mom and CEO | @pepperpotts
@tonystank Sometimes I wonder why @harleykeener named you that, but then there’s moments like this (and no, Peter, you still can’t wear that thing)
Spider-Aunt | @blackwindow
I love Christmas @hawkeye [picture of Natasha and Clint in ugly Avengers themed Christmas sweaters]
- Uncle America | @steverogers
@blackwindow ditto @jbbarnes [picture of Steve and Bucky in Captain America Christmas sweaters]
-- Uncle Rhodey | @jamesrhodes
@blackwindow @steverogers you’re not the only ones @onyourabove @drbrucebanner @tonystank [picture of Rhodey, Sam, Bruce and Tony wearing Christmas sweaters with their own superhero on it]
Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
This year is my first Christmas celebrating with the Stark family, and it’s very different then what I’m used to with my aunt, so I’ll give you a little inside view! (1/?)
- Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@yeeterparkour First of all, the gifts. It’s tradition here to do secret Santa’s, instead getting everyone something. Also FRIDAY asks everyone what they want to ensure everybody’s happy (2/?)
-- Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@yeeterparkour May and I just used to buy each other a book, but bc Dad gives everyone whatever they ask for, this will make everything a lot more personal (3/?)
--- Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@yeeterparkour Then, dinner. I used to make it, because @mayparker can’t cook for the life of her. It used to be me and my uncle Ben, but after he died, I took over (4/?)
---- Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@yeeterparkour Here, @steverogers is in charge and will allow most people to help. It’s obviously also a lot more food, having so many enhanced people. (5/?)
----- Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@yeeterparkour Also, the overall vibe of Christmas is very different. My own parents died just before Christmas, giving us all a weird mood around that time of the year (6/?)
------ Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@yeeterparkour I do, of course, still think about them, but I was very young when they died and there are only two people who knew them in a very large company (7/?)
------- Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@yeeterparkour I’m also glad that I have my new family here and that this year brought so many happiness for everyone (despite me being kidnapped) (8/8)
Iron Dad | @tonystank
I’m so happy that I have 4 beautiful kids (and another one on the way) to celebrate this Christmas with me while I had none last year
- Potato Son | @harleykeener
@tonystank i ahve known u for wayyy longer thaen a year
-- Intern Son | @yeeterparkour
@tonystank @harleykeener yea and i hev been here for over a year too
--- Iron Dad | @tonystank
@harleykeener @yeeterparkour SHUt it. neither of you have been living here for over a year
The entire Avenger’s team plus all the family was sitting in the Stark Tower living room. They had just finished dinner and were now getting ready for gifts. They were doing secret Santa, but nobody said anything about buying anyone else stuff. Well, in Tony’s case it wasn’t so much buying stuff.
Tony and Pepper got up. “So, before anything else happens, we’ve got a couple of gifts for the kids. We’re giving it now because I don’t trust Tony to keep it a secret.” Pepper glared at Tony.
“Hey! I can keep secrets. I kept this a secret until now, right?”
“Sure you did, anyways-” Pepper placed an envelope in front of each of the kids. “We have discussed this thoroughly with everyone involved and they are all fine with it.” Peter and Harley shared a weirded out look while Wanda and Alicia were just staring at Pepper.
“You shouldn’t feel any obligation to do it, this is your choice,” Tony said. “You can open them now.”
The four of them ripped open the envelopes. Peter was first and pulled out an official-looking document. He quickly scanned through it and looked up at Tony and Pepper, his mouth falling open.
“You- What?” Peter was unable to form a coherent sentence. Pepper put her finger on her lips, giving the other three time to figure out what was happening.
“YOU WANT TO ADOPT US?”